Cass Sunstein, author of the popular 2008 non-fiction Nudge, Harvard Law professor and husband of US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, punctuated his visit to Dartmouth this week with an extremely provocative speech in Filene Auditorium. In his speech, “Free by Default," Sunstein presented and qualified the pros and cons of personalized default rules – in comparison to the models of impersonal default rules and active choosing.
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This afternoon, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business announced that former AmeriCares president and CEO Curt Welling D '71, T '77 join Tuck's Center for Global Business & Government and the Center for Business & Society as a senior fellow. Welling assumed the joint appointments on the first of the year following his 11-year tenure at the non-profit global health and disaster organization.
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